So much for down time...

I guess this is the pay back for raving about having no where to go over the holidays. It has been a whirlwind every since Christmas. After we got back from Minnesota, we were right back to busy. Mom's Group was Tuesday Cale and I headed off there, while Colby went to Sleepy Hollow for sledding. Wednesday was New Years Eve, we went over to one of Shawn's friends, luckily for me we celebrated with the New Yorkers so I was asleep right before midnight. Then on New Years Day we went to Shawn's Dads' to watch the Hawkeye's play in their bowl game. And since then Cale has been sick. He started running a fever that day and continued to run one off and on, but had no other symptoms. Yesterday he said both of his ears hurt and in the next 20 minutes was SCREAMING and CRYING because of the pain. It was horrible. The whole time he had a fever I kept asking him, does your throat hurt, ears, stomach. NOTHING, then out of no where it comes yesterday. So after my trip to the OB for my regular check up we were off to the doctor with Cale. He has ear infection in BOTH ears. UGH! Is it spring yet? I just want to open up my house and get the sick out.
By the way, pretty excited about my doctors appointment yesterday. I was a little worried about my weight, you know with the holidays and all, but I only gained 2 pounds. That to me is almost like losing weight! Shawn may be in a smidgen of trouble because when I asked him what he guessed my gain was he said 8 pounds....I think his answer from now on will be " I don't think you look like you've gained an ounce my pretty." Although he claims he was trying to be nice because I was thinking like 10 or more. I'll let it slide this time....

Cale's fun in Minnesota!

"Cream"
Diego & Dora

Bumper cars for "little people"-hilarious!

The Wonder Pets flyboat ride

Dad & Cale on the roller coaster

Obviously we decided that Cale was too young to go to the football game, so he and I went to the Mall of America. Cale and I had lunch at The Rainforest Cafe, which is totally cool. But we really spent the majority of the day at Nickelodeon Universe, the indoor amusement park. He had such a great time! When Shawn and Colby were done at the game they met us and Shawn went on a couple rides with him too. Cale also went to Build A Bear, he had gotten a gift card for Christmas and was excited to use it. His new "guy" is named Cream and as you can see apparently he is also a Vikings fan....

I can't believe I'm about to say this about any shopping establishment, but the Mall of America is just too much. It is all so overwhelming, I don't even think we saw a third of it, and we were there the better part of 2 days.

Seriously can just one of my children be a COWBOYS fan?

Vikings vs Giants
Dad and Colby at the game!

Pregame at the hotel

Fired up about the tattoo Dad just put on his head!

We went up to Minneapolis December 27th-29th. Shawn and Colby had tickets to go to the Minnesota Vikings game on Sunday the 28th so we decided to make it a little weekend get away. Needless to say the had a great time! Shawn said their seats literally could not have gotten any higher they were at the clear top of the dome, we had decided that since we weren't sure if Colby would sit through and entire game we weren't going to spend a whole bunch of money on tickets. So Shawn says to Colby "Next time buddy we will try to get better tickets" Colby says "What are you talking about Dad, these seats are the best!" He did sit through the entire game and they even won. Shawn was pretty positive that the Giants were going to throttle the Vikings, but it ended up being a great game! It was such a great time for both of them, and I'm sure its a memory the two of them with treasure forever!

Christmas 2008

Cale helping Dad open his gifts
See they can play together nicely....

My pretty girl....

We had a great Christmas! We had Christmas with Shawn's family on the 19th and my family on the 21st so we had NO where to go for Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. It was awesome! It was so nice to finally not have to run here and there for the holidays. Shawn made prime rib in his rotisserie for lunch on Christmas Day and it was incredible! Definitely a family tradition has begun. I am truly blessed to have such a great family and can't wait to add one more little guy to our fun.

Me and my big guy ringin' the bell

Colby and I rang the bell for the Salvation Army on Christmas Eve. We had a lot of fun, I only hope that he will want to continue to do it with me. He might be getting to that I'm to cool to be seen with my mom stage.